Advertising device



2 Sheets-Sheet 1.

(No Model.)

Patented Dec. 12,1893.

INVENTOR UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN HARRISON, OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A SSIGNOR TO THE HERBERT BOOTHKING & BROTHER PUBLISHING COMPANY, OF, NEW JERSEY.

ADVERTISING DEVICE.

I SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 510,599, datedDecember 12, 1893.

Applicationfiled December 30,1892. Serial lie-456,776- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN HARRISON, a citizen of the United States, and aresident of the city of Brooklyn, Kings county, New York, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Advertising Devices, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being hadto the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

The object of my invention is to provide an advertising card or devicefor gratuitous distribution, upon which one or more advertisements maybe printed, and which shall excite sufficient interest and be attractiveenough to cause it to be preserved longer than an ordinary advertisingor business card would be. This object I attain by means of the deviceshown in the accompanying drawings and more specifically referred to inthe claims, although it will of course be understood that variations inthe form and details of the device maybe made without departing from'thespirit of my invention.

' In said drawings Figure 1 is a full size plan view of my device, withall the flaps open, and Fig. 2 is a similar view, but with one flapfolded down.

Similar reference letters are employed to designate corresponding partsin both the views.

The device may be constructed of any desired size, ,the size representedin the drawings being suitable for the particular object therein shown.

The device, as will be readily understood, is made of card, bristolboard, heavy paper, celluloid or similar material and is formed with abody or central member A, upon which is represented any object, such forinstance as the head and shoulders of a man, in one state or condition,such for instance as appareled in a straw hat.

To the body or central member A is secured a plurality of flaps, such asthe parts marked B, O and D. In the construction shown, these are formedintegrally with the central member A, and creases are formed therein sothat the flaps will fold on the dotted lines 1, 2 and 3. Each of theflaps is provided on its reverse sidewith a device, such as the hats b,c and cl, shown in dotted lines, so that when any one of the flaps isfolded over upon the central member, the object there illustrated willbe represented in a different state or condition from that in which itappears on the central member, either when the flaps are all unfolded,or when any of the other flaps are folded over upon it. Thus forinstance, when the flap O is folded down 011 the central member, thestraw hat shown in Fig. 1 will be replaced by a silk hat, as shown inFig. 2. If now the flap B is folded over, the silk hat will be replacedby an Alpine hat, and if the flap D be then turned down, a Derby hatwill appear in place thereof. The different figures or objects arepreferably lithographed on the difierent parts of the cardin colors, inorder to render the device as attractive as possible, and anadvertisement may be printed on either or both the base and the otherplates, so that by revolving the plates ninety degrees, the pictureswill be changed; but these constructions I do notclaim, since anessential feature of my device is the provision of a plurality offolding flaps hinged to the difierent sides of the central member, eachof which may be provided with blank spaces, either on one or both of itssides, in which an advertisement may be printed, and each of which maybe folded down upon the central member independently of the others.

Having thus described my invention, what 5 I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

In an advertising device, the combination of a body or central member A,having thereon a complete representation of an object in one state orconditi0n,and a plurality of f0lding flaps such as B, O and D separatelyhinged to different sides of the central member A, each of which flapsbears a representation of a different object, and each of which has aportion of its surface cutaway on a line which forms one of the contourlines of the object depicted on the flap, and which will also registerwith the object depicted on the central member, whereby as said flapsare folded to down successively upon the central member, the objectthereon depicted will appear in a diiferent state or condition,substantially as shown and described.

JOHN HARRISON. Witnesses:

S. G. METCALF, WM. W. SHAW.

